The Yalta Conference was unique. The week...

This leads to a statement that perhaps inspires doubt: Yalta created the world we live in. Is this true?

Let us take a look at a visual aid - the best-known photograph of the Big Three, seated in front of the Livadia Palace, depicting, from left to right, Sir Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. Another photograph shows the three of them standing, on one of the rare occasions Roosevelt could stand in spite of his failing health. Standing in the same order, the Allied leaders look striking -the huge, bulky Churchill, the lanky Roosevelt, who was no taller than the British leader, and Stalin, with his unexpectedly small and fragile stature.

Heights and weights did matter, because conferences like Yalta determined, first of all, who would hold the most weight in the new, postwar world. The Tehran Conference, which took place toward the end of 1943, outlined the future victors" alliance. The Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945 determined Germany"s

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